Natalie Kimmerling

I often describe my aphantasia as a 'black void of nothingness'. Although this isn't exactly correct as I have an incredibly active imagination, it seems to help people understand that I don't see anything in my head and instead only conceptualise. I'm an actor and a lot of people ask me if having aphantasia hinders my ability to act, to which I respond that I think it often makes it easier. I don't need to see something in my mind's eye if I can still have a strong emorional response to the idea of it. I've been told often that I have an unusual and beautiful connections to what I'm saying in a scene and I put this down to thinking in emotions rather than images. I think it also helps me stay in the present as I don't have images to distract me from what's directly in front of me in the moment.